watching. i'm jeanine pirro advocating for truth, justice and the american way. see you next saturday night. ♪♪ pete: we begin with a fox news alert. more than 20 people were shot at a concert in florida. police say two people are dead. no arrests have been made. carley: ashley strohmier with the latest. reporter: reports say a banquet hall was being rented out for a concert when three men pulled up in a white nissan path finder and started shooting. the injured were taken to hospitals in broward and miami-dade counties. one of them is in critical condition. miami-dade police director i'm at the scene of another targeted

cowardly act of gun violence, 20 victims were shot, two have died. cold-blooded murderers shot indiscrimenantly into a crowd. we will seek justice. my deep condolences to the victims. it is located in a shopping center in hialeah, florida. worker said only a matter of time before something happened. the hall had fights and rowdy crowds. they have note identified suspects or victims or motives in the shooting. no arrests were made at this time. police are expected to hold a briefing. obviously more to unfold throughout the day. back to you guys. pete: ashley, thank you very much. not the way to start the morning but it's a special, special weekend. we're grateful you're here on "fox & friends," sunday may 30th, year of our lord, 2021. i'm joined by will cain, carley

shimkus. it is memorial day weekend the day we honor our heroes that paid the ultimate sacrifice. one of my favorite weekend to be on the couch here to make sure you do justice by it. carley: absolutely right. all sorts of emotions on a weekend like this. it's patriotic and reflection. fun and family. all those things. baseline, the bottom line, the most important thing is remembering our fallen heroes. will: we've been doing that throughout the weekend. viewers sending in pictures of their loved once on this memorial day weekend. send in your pictures at friends@foxnews.com. carley: this is their cousin, second lieutenant john herb, who was missing for 70 years after his plane crashed before the end of world war ii. he was found in 2014. what a sorry there. will: scott sends us this one, friend and neighbor, navy seal

chief thomas ratlof. who was killed when his helicopter crashed in afghanistan in 2011. reporter: lieutenant lloyd lorraine, jr., killed in action during world war ii. he died driving his damaged plane before crashing and ordering his entire crew to bail out. send friends@foxnews.com all morning long. will: we remember what the weekend the holiday is all aabout. are upset some of our leaders in the country do not quite remember the meaning of this weekend. here is the tweet causing some outrage in the social media sphere. a tweet from vice president kamala harris, where she wished you the following greeting, enjoy the long weekend with a picture of herself. >> long weekend.

will: that prompted some tweets like the carley, from our own joey jones. hey kamala harris, my buddies wanted me to post ourselfty to enjoy the long weekend too. on the wall behind him some of his lost fallen soldiers. pete: absolutely. you're right on social media the responses were strong and quick, rightfully so. another one from robbie starbuck, tennessee congressional candidate wrote this, i know you think the long weekend is a chance to post a pic of yourself and get some mimosas as you rip our country apart t is for our brave soldiers that died for our country and lifetime their family spend without them. someone tell kamala harris it is more than a long weekend. so many pictures going around the internet. landing craft for normandy beach. long weekend. storming iwo jima, long weekend. talk about antifa and

anti-fascists, talk about the real anti-racism that men fought real facism and race i am around the world. you're in people of such power look to you, look at me, i'm cute, have a long weekend. carley: unbelievable. one of the reasons president trump won in 2016 because the country just experienced eight years of those kinds of messages. remember president obama's apology tour where he would go to other countries, make speeches, basically apologizing for america being the leading nation in the world and we have to do better. then when president announced that he was running for president his message was, no, let's not do that, america first, be proud of who we are as a nation t really spoke to a lot of people. now we're going back to that obama era of apologies and have a nice, long, weekend on memorial day. she is the vice president. that tweet may be acceptable for not a politician, maybe just

somebody, that is not running for office or anything like that but she is the second most powerful person in the world. she said on memorial day, have a nice long weekend. pete: gone from military parades, wanting to have a military parade to a long weekend. will: the most powerful person in the world is her boss president joe biden. he tweeted following. he said, stay cool this weekend, folks. carley: they're pushing the ice cream thing with the vice president. will: pete, i'm thinking so many ways our society, i'm going to use the word we, proverbal we, we have become so spoiled, spoiled great grandchildren, people built this country from a place where your freedom couldn't be taken easily for granted. people like yourself have gone far and wide to protect this country's freedom. we still have soldiers to this

day stationed across the world. when it remains so far away, isn't here on a daily basis, doesn't threaten your narrow world view for many americans, you begin to think this is just a long weekend, you can begin to forget what has been done, what continues to be done to make sure this is more than a long weekend. pete: very well-said. would you think someone like joe biden would know better, so many generations you have the gravity of the oval office. i'm sure there will be a memorial day message. he is going to a program today. going to recognize it, take every opportunity not to be flippant about it, you would think you want to permeate the "gravity" of the weekend all you're talking about. it just doesn't. carley: to be clear we know that vice president kamala harris, president biden, they didn't type those messages out. they didn't tweet that themselves, they have social media teams. the people who you hire reflect your principles, reflect what your messaging is.

it doesn't seem like you know the military and honoring our country is a top priority for democrats as they try to change the country into a different ideal. pete: i thought about this, if she tweeted some full-throated rah-rah america, memorial day thank you, she will get hit from the left-wing of her party really hard. will: i would love to see the experiment play out. pete: it is a sad reality where we are. will: coming up representative brian mast representative from florida. up 8:00 eastern time here on the program. pete: gave a portion of his body to our country. carley: in the meantime because of the conflict that had occurred in the middle east between israel and palestine there's a string of anti-semitic attacks have taken place in the united states. because of that rutgers university denounced anti-semitism. this tack place on wednesday. they posted this message.

we are saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and antisemitic violence in the united states. sounds like a pretty ianable message. well by thursday they had apologized for that. they said in hindsight it is clear for us the message failed to communicate support for our palestinian community members. we apologize for the hurt this message has caused. guess what they're facing backlash for that apology. will, what happens. will: both of these previous messages have been deleted. now we're on to number three. this is number three. carley: third time is a charm. will: rutgers deplores hatred and bigotry in all forms. we're safe so far i think. we would never apologize for standing against anti-semitism. nate hatred nor bigotry has a place at rutgers nor any place in the world. at rutgers, we believe

anti-semetism, anti-inhuism, xenophobia and racism are condemned anywhere in the world. carley: had to cover all of it. will: how many peoples hands were on the message on the third try. do you. carley: i think that is pretty safe. will: i didn't know anti-hinduism is a big issue. do they have a comes department. carley: yeah they have a communications school. pete: what a testament into caving, caving again, then a world salad of nothingness. the first statement was great. you have a problem with antisemitic attacks. jewish students are welcome in the community, apologize, clarify, by the time you clarified you kicked everybody off and you're now defending all forms of hate in any way anytime

except of course against conservatives. carley: we'll talk to a rutgers student coming up at 7:25 a.m. eastern time. i do want to say that this story, this rutgers saga is about two things. one it is about the constant push to apologize so quickly when you may have just offended one person, that immediate apology. that so many corporations and colleges just automatically go to the other is really foreign policy. israel and the united states are, israel is our greatest ally in the middle east and that will hopefully be until the end of time. we are partners in democracy and israel and the united states have such a vested interest in each other. it is very interesting that this new palestinian push, especially in congress when palestinian leadership hamas is funded by iran. iran wants to wipe the united states off the fairs of the earth. pete: careful saying that on the college campus. that may be clear-cut in foreign policy. as far as in the faculty lounge

they wouldn't agree with you one bit. universities used to stand for something. they were grounded if something, western civilization and they're totally untethered. will: on the fourth apology, rutgers deplores hatred and bigotry against everyone, all of it period. carley: goodness. we have to hit some headlines starting with a fox news alert. an explosion erupts overnight at a oil refinery in west virginia, the facility going up in flames, forcing officials to evacuate homes one mile in each direction. firefighters have gotten the fire under control. no injure rigs are reported. an investigation is currently is underway. chaos breaks out as a seattle beach overnight. hundreds of officers responding to the scene. at one point a woman was seen dancing on top of a police cruiser. they closed the beach early after fights, fires, and robberies reportedly broke out.

>> seattle police department. the park is now closed. everybody please leave the area at this time. carley: at least two people were arrested and one officer was injured. a live look at atlanta international airport as travel surges across the u.s. for the unofficial start of summer. pete: not surging yet. carley: two million travelers on friday, pete, this is we're going in the past. pete: early. carley: the highest number since the start of the pandemic that two million number but road trips are still the memorial day favorite with 34 million expected to hit the road up 50% from last year according to aaa. despite gas prices reaching a seven-year high. those are the headlines. turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with the fox weather forecast. hey, rick. tongue-twister for me to say.

rick: a lot of tongue twisters both with my job and my name but you got threw it nicely. here is your temperatures waking up. how is 47 feeling this morning? not so great across a lot of the northeast. 43 in chicago. this is still a fire weather unfortunately. you got to get through today. things improve a little bit by the time we get towards later tomorrow, by tuesday a little bit of a improvement. here is the temperatures two areas of storms we're watching across parts of the central plains, will bring flooding and severe weather. another round will fire later today. mid-atlantic, towards the northeast, more rain all day long today. at least for the start of the day tomorrow. hopefully by the end of tomorrow we scavage out a little bit of memorial day. guys, back to you. will: thank you, rick. still ahead the feds give companies a green light to force employees to get vaccinated s this legal? our next guest is an attorney

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workers back. eoc says antibody testing results cannot be used to be made to return to the work place. we have attorney joanna spill bore. great to see you. we'll have to work through a soup of acronyms and bureaucracies. talk about ememployers and employees. can employers require a employee to take a vaccine, hipaa, ada, can they tell you. >> here to clear it all up it is completely unclear. but as you pointed out the eeoc is really the holy grail of guidance when it comes to employer and employee relations and the eeoc came out said, yes, you can force employees to get vaccinated dot, dot, dot. in other words, there are caveats to it, will. you can't, they're suggesting, go ahead and force your employees to get vaccinated but

it is probably not a good idea to fire them if they refuse to do it. and, if they have a religious reason why they don't want to do it, if they have a medical reason why they don't want to do it you cannot force them to do it. so it is a legal quagmire with a rubic's cube. bottom line employers do have the right to tell you can't come back to work unless you get vaccinated. will: that is what i found researching as well. the jonna, the caveat, if you say you don't want to get it, can't get it, have a medical reason not to get it, they can't pry into what the reasons might be you run into the ada at some point. now i want to talk about the incentives when it comes to the customer relationship with the business. we understand these are private businesses. they have a ton of leeway on what they do. here is one example. the new york knicks are saying if they make the second round of the playoffs they're only going to sell playoff tickets to those that are vaccinated. here is what the statement

specifically said. given the enthusiastic response to the vaccination requirements, tickets sold exclusively to fully vaccinated individuals. now john narcs you combine this with concert promotions others say vaccinated, $18. unvaccinated $1000. can you have these discriminatory practices when it comes to your customer? >> so here's the problem, what the government really wants is to mandate vaccinations across the board but it knows it can't do that because people will race to the nearest courthouse. so what does the government say. listen, i will put, pass the baton to the private businesses and let them do the government's bidding. we'll give them authority to either serve or not serve people who are vaccinated and give all these incentives to get vaccinated because they're private enterprise and they can do what they want. that is essentially what is happening. will: right. >> you will not run to the courthouse, if you did i had run

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♪. carley: for many restaurants and bars memorial day weekend is booming with business but as the country reopens and customers return staffing shortages are the cause for concern for some small business owners. jason cramer is the owner of of duwop drive h in in wildwood,

new jersey. he joins us now. what is going on with your restaurant? you have openings you can't fill. why do you think that is? >> it is pretty simple. give people free money to sit around do nothing, it is backfiring. put the it for me is a busy weekend. the weather a little bad. that's okay. we'll get through the weather. i can't even see see a seat a good third of my restaurant because i don't have employees. there is nobody coming through the door. wildwood is a dry town, i don't have that extra revenue coming in from alcohol sales where i can give incentives. i'm not a big restaurant. i don't have 500 employees. but it is enough, enough to make a lot of people happy a lot of families do well. carley: do you think if new jersey dropped that 300-dollar federal benefit you would be able to hire more people an make more money?

>> carley, you got to do the math. i don't know who is doing the math in the state but the money they're losing from sales tax, payroll tax, this weekend is absolutely insane. i have plenty of friends, restaurant owners that are dealing with the same problems. if you don't have enough employees to meet your productivity of what your business can handle, whether it's a restaurant or a bar, or retail or anything else, you know, you're not going to, you're not going to hit those numbers. it is just complete backfire. why is it so hard to say, okay, we're giving too much money out let's roll it back. i'm all for people that need the money, family is with kids with disabilities, that's fine. everyone is taking on money and just not working it is clear and simple. it is very simple to see it. carley: you're not the only person that's feeling that way especially in new jersey. i believe new jersey has the 7th highest unemployment

rate specifically because of this reason. the other issue is essentially dealing with small businesses is that congress is mulling over the idea of a 15-dollar minimum wage. what would that do for your business? would you be able to afford that? >> carley, exactly what happened this year. my partner and i, we had to weigh out, exactly what happens. we had to weigh out what do we do with the money? can we raise prices, not raise prices. i had a coffee shop down the street. 15 years i never raised prices maybe two times in that entire 15 years. i'm here one year, opened up during the pandemic. had to double up on winter jobs. you have four kids, you get into this, you're going do we have to raise prices? we to. how do i pay employees, my seasoned staff in the back are with me 12, 13 years, $15 is much as a hostess. my guys bust their but to slave

over food. people eating don't see the side. don't see the side of the staff good to you? do i pay them 20, 25 hours an hour. pancakes, $12 a dish, $15? where is the end. it is -- carley, there should have been a working wage and a student wage and then a seasonal wage. they don't think this clearly. it is -- carley: that is actually a really good point. you're making a great point. jason you're forced to do that $15 minimum wage you could go out of business, then nobody would have a job. we wouldn't want that to happen. best of luck. you're not alone in this fight. we hope you get more employees pretty soon and get that business going. jason, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me back. carley: this weekend we're remembering our nation's servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. the family of three american heroes who died for our freedom join us next.

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ones in service, this weekend holds much significance. it's a time to keep their memories alive. today we honor them. let's bring in gold far pan pell. gold star mom, kristin keating joseph. david horton and gold star parents, david and billie vaughn. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. pete: absolutely. going into memorial day weekend obviously has special significance for you. how do you approach the weekend? >> well, first of all, i think it's great you guys are remembering our kids. they're all american kids, boys and girls that have grown up, and sacrificed for our country. when i was running yesterday i saw flags out in the streets. more you can do that, go to the gentleman's bar that you had, toast these kids, more you remember it for us, honestly. pete: absolutely. david, same question, as you go into this weekend what are you thinking about? >> well you know this particular

memorial day is very special to me and my family, to chris's widow, jane horton, we're heading to the 10-year mark of christopher's death in afghanistan and so it is just amazing that much time has passed and once again i also join the thank you for your spotlight and emphasis on our children and, there was a sacrifice to do and this, this weekend, memorial day weekend is always bittersweet for us. we're very proud. i'm very proud of chris and what he sacrificed, what he has done for me, for the nation, for what he believed in and at the same, at the same time the sting of

the loss just, you just live with it. it is not something that goes away. you literally can't move on as if it didn't happen. pete: yeah. david, we thank you. can't thank you enough. billie and karen, good to see you both. dear friends of mine. had a chance to spend a lot of time with you to hear about aaron's life. tell me what you're thinking about this weekend. >> this morning, pete, we've been friends for a long time, as you can imagine this is the toughest memorial day so far because of the condition of our nation. i watched what happened through the past year i feel, i literally feel like i've been gut punched just about every day, pete. i just had to turn the news off. because as a mom who gave her life for people saying they don't love each other, a mom of a man that sacrificed his life out of love for every single person in this nation, it is a gut punch.

i can barely take it. we're coming up on our 10-year anniversary as well. aaron would have been 40 this month. august 6th will be the 10-year anniversary of his death. i cannot believe where we've come as a nation in these 10 years. >> right. pete: billy? >> good morning, pete. good to see. pete: good to see you. >> as the other parents have said, i think the thing is we asked the nation is to remember. just remember what these men and these women, not just these, not just ours, not just the current ones, you know, like who have served now but always for our republic, a million 1/2 left it all there so we could have hotdogs, hamburgers this long weekend. we should enjoy the freedoms this weekend in the united states of america that others have fought for us. we have a responsibility to them and to god almighty to remember

what that cost. president calvin coolidge said, a nation who forgets its warriors will itself soon be forgotten. you know i pray that we not become that nation, pete. pete: so well-said, billy. christa, we covered at the top of the show vice president kamala harris tweeted out yesterday, enjoy the long weekend with, a selfie picture. what is your reaction to that? >> well my reaction is that you know, when charlie dropped out of indiana university after running an under four minute mile and wanted to join the navy to fight for our country, his coach said to him, why would you do that. you could die? he said if i die it would be honor. i don't know he gave hiss entire life going to iraq, saving a village a catholic village, now they can have mass again. we are a great country.

we do so much for everyone else. we don't want to forget that, really. that is what makes this day hard but special for those who are celebrating for our kids. you guys do what you're doing. pete: well-said. a lot of us talked about isis the threat we face, your son stared them down. >> absolutely. he went to the fight, to save other seals under fire as well as the people of that village. pete: david, your message to those people that don't really understand why this weekend is so special? >> i noticed a lot of sentiments on social media and so forth, have a great barbecue to, to thanking service men and women in general and of course all that's fine. it is just that this one day is set aside to remember those who gave all of it, battlefields of

the world. i'm thinking can we not just have one day that the nation understands that this is the memorialize those who can't be with us this weekend? who can't be celebrating, and, and, we're always grateful for all of our veterans. we're always grateful for you know, everyone who has served in anyway but this weekend is about those who have laid it all down on the battlefield. and it would just be great if we could just public service announcement out or something that is what this weekend's about. i don't think people generally know what it's for. pete: i think unfortunately that is all too true. karen, i give you the last word, when you see the flippant nature of some of our leaders on this, the long weekend. >> yeah, pete.

you know it just shows, for a lack of a better word stupidity is not the same thing as ignorance. ignorance is somebody who doesn't understand something who never knew. clearly kamala never understood what was paid for her to be free. for her to declare it a long weekend, yes it is insulting. i will give her the benefit of the doubt. i hope she is watching, that we parents of somebody who died we want people to celebrate this weekend. we want them to enjoy the long weekend with their family. that is why our sons gave their lives. we also like christopher's father said, we want them to take just a moment to remember why they can do that. >> yes. pete: christa, billy, karen, david, we love you all. >> love you too. pete: thank you, guys. the names of charles keating, christopher horton, air rain

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they were stuck for hours on the poltergeist roller coaster at six flags in san antonio. firefighters came in, got everyone off the ride. thankfully no one was hurt. it is unclear what caused the sudden stop. the coaster is now closed for inspection. probably a good idea. pete: thank you. all right, from immigration to defunding the police political strife continues to divide our nation. will: our next guest says our nation needs to forget controversial issues like critical race theory and adopt the mentality of critical grace theory. carley: david fisher, from living waters church in pasadena, california. i love, that drop critical race theory, go to critical grace theory. how do you recommend we all do that? >> yeah. that hit me just a few weeks back. it is great to be with you guys. i listen to you often. after a year of just hearing hate and shaming and canceling

and vitriol, it just suddenly hit me, you know, it would seem to me that forgiveness would triumph over victimhood. so my next thought was, who was the greatest victim on earth. got to be jesus christ. and while he is hanging on the cross bleeding, beaten, people are screaming and shaming and spitting and throwing all manner of stuff at him, what does he do? he doesn't say we'll burn you down, baby. he says, father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing. and i thought, man, that's too simple but i believe it would work if we learned to forgive like jesus taught us. will: pastor, i think you hit on

something absolutely missing in modern american culture almost willfully. when we look at cancel culture, our requirements to get our pound of flesh from anyone we feel like who has publicly sinned or our nation for that matter for its past, we're forgetting, forgiveness and grace, the missing ingredient doesn't just help the victim it, helps the one who seems to have been offended as well. it frees everyone. nelson mandela, forgiveness is the ultimate liberator. >> yes. yeah, it's amazing. and all of us who have learned to forgive people, i think you're right, pete, that it it frees us as much as it frees them and it opens the door you know, the church, the church was just the scum of the earth in the roman empire. they were killed and fed to the lions and burned and yet by 300

ad, christianity had become the religion of the empire. they totally overcame simply by living christ-like lives. pete: do you think our culture is capability of that type of grace? i got to imagine, that's your hope as you stand at the lecturn? >> it is my hope, yeah, as a christian pastor. that's why we preach grace. we believe in grace. why we look to jesus. whether or not, and to what degree our nation would be capable. you know, christians are very silent people. we're being encouraged to speak up by guys like you that are really doing us a service but if you're taught to turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, love those that hate you, we're not going to be out there throwing

water bottles at people that disagree with us but i think there is 10 of millions of believers in america and certainly if we who are believers will kick it up a notch an help spread the word who knows what's possible. will: pastor david fischer, pushing us all, critical grace theory. i will live it. watch this, pastor. i will forgive you for calling me pete in that grace for calling me pete. i feel lib rayed in this moment. it is all good. i feel great. you can call me pete anytime. honored to be mistaken for pete. thank you so much. >> appreciate it. >> okay. will: patriotic pride veterans turn to bourbon barrels to make

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♪. will: kentucky based crews custom flags has been better known, operating since 2017. they have been building handcrafted american flags from repurposes bourbon barrels. carley: that is so cool. this month the owners of the business are helping even more heroes by donating 15% of profits to usa cares, offering assistance to post 9/11 vets and military families. pete: today they are doing what they do best hand crafting a american flag live here on

"fox & friends weekend." joining us army veteran, co-owner of cruz custom flags and his co-owner amber cruz. we have brandon elder around craft the men, marine corps combat veteran and purple hart recipient andreweth reg, out reach development, matt castor, usa cares veteran and ceo, chase tres sec. patriots all. that was a mouthful. we love what you do, you will do it live on "fox & friends" this is morning. tell us about it? >> absolutely we'll take this barrel, turn it into a work of art you guys. no place we would rather be than in the shop on this memorial day weekend to share a little bit about our business to help usa cares, and show you behind the scenes what it takes to have a veteran handcrafted bourbon barrel american flag. we use the met at that far,

bourbon barrels serve ad good purposes aging kentucky power bone and veterans helped our country and we help veteran barrels find a new purpose. carley: i was able to go down to your facility couple years ago. i was better with power tools than todd piro. you guys do amazing work. great stuff. amber, why did you died, why did you decide to give 15% of profits this month to usa cares? >> well because they, along the same lines as us. we want to give back to veterans. help take care of veterans. give them a new purpose. usa cares, that's what they do, they take care of veterans and their families it, would be awesome to team up with them to do outreach even further. will: we'll check in with you all throughout the morning. you see that barrel as you pointed out turned into an awesome american flag. quickly, first process, what is the first step? break the barrel apart, i

assume, trace? >> we'll break this barrel apart. this is one of the stripes will look like. then we'll turn it into an american flag. will: we'll be watching. >> so you guys know what it is about. will: we'll be watching throughout the morning. can't wait. stay with us. we're watching that barrel turned into an american flag, your latest news is coming up at the top of the hour. more "fox & friends" moments away. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for.

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pathfinder and started shooting. three people were taken to the hospital in broward and miami-dade counties. one is in critical condition. the mime did i police director i'm seen at another cowardly act of gun violence where 20 victims were shot and two sadly have died. these are cold-blooded murderers shot indiscrimenantly into a crowd. we'll seek justice. my condolences to the victims. the banquet haul is located in a shopping center in hialeah. a worker said only a matter of time before something happened. the hall frequently had fights and rowdy crowds. police have not identified the suspects, victims or any possible motives in the smoothing. no arrests were made at this time but police believe it was a targeted shooting. back to you guys. will: thank you so much, ashley. welcome into "fox & friends" this is morning on the sunday of memorial day, we're taking time as we all should to remember the

real meaning behind this day. as we do we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice of our freedoms. share with us your loved ones that paid the ultimate price defending this country. people have been sending their pictures in at friends@foxnews cott.com. we're happy to honor everyone. pete: lieutenant coraller ames who served in world war i and his mom who served in world war ii. carley: aden, pictured at a vietnam memorial war reflecting on a photo of his grandfather, sergeant patrick mcdaniel killed in action on memorial day, 1970. will: this one, from kathy of her fallen hero, army chief warrant officer phillip wendorsky killed in being shaun in iraq in 2006. we remember these heroes and all servicemembers who lost their lives fighting for this country. please send in your memorial day tribute pictures.

it is an honor to share this time with you our audience at friends@foxnews.com. we'll show them all morning long. pete: look at photos, especially the second one. veterans, grandfather, 20-year-old kid. 21, 22,. carley: prime of their lives. pete: in the prime of their lives. some married. some have kids. most will never know the joy of wedding or childbirth. unbelievable selflessness. carley: i am glad we showed the pictures yesterday and today. those faces are what this weekend is all about. what monday is all about. you have to remember those faces. you're right the selflessness, sacrifice all the people have made. 645,000 people have died since world war i in this country. will: a story, a family member, a life behind everyone of those 645,000 photos. we only show a few of them here on this program today. but that story, those individuals, so important to remember on this weekend.

moving on to a story we picked up on yesterday. of course you've seen it in the news cycle. growing i would suggest over the last couple weeks. become socially acceptable. carley: a big shift earlier this week. will: talking about the origins of the covid-19 virus. did it come from a lab. more than a year to this point, you've been told, no, no, that's silly. in fact that is racist. better yet, that is a conspiracy theory. you heard stuff like this for the better part of a year. >> this question about the wuhan lab, we know that it has been debunked. that this virus was man-made or modified or anything like that. donald trump is still pushing the debunked bunk 'em despite his own intelligence community findings it is not true. >> mystery surrounds the high security lab of wuhan institute of virology that handles it the world's most dangerous path though owns, making it target of conspiracy theories of about the origin of virus. >> trump officials talk about the lab, there is no evidence

behind that. >> world health organization says this lab leak theory is unlikely. pete: debunked. there was no work went into the bunking or debunking these sorries from these stories. the idea there is no evidence. one of the best pieces of evidence that it may have emerged from the lab -- carley: there is a lab in wuhan? pete: there is a lab in wuhan, but no evidence yet it occurred naturally. previous pandemics may have come from that direction, if anything, if you spent anytime listening to scientists most of which have been blocked by facebook so you can't even listen to them anyway from the very beginning absolutely censored, if you look look at ta sequence, what the virus looks like or the genetic code it doesn't look like something that could occur naturally. that was being said, over a year ago, and i believe more information will be coming out shortly on that too but they say no evidence, totally debunked. you're not even allowed to see it. will: we had the conversation yesterday. i did see someone, i

occasionally glance in social media, and i saw someone bring up interesting point, why is it important if it came from a look or a market? it is good question, the chinese covered it up and blocked the truth. forgive me, three reasons, why one it shows us the extent which the chinese go absolute themselves of blame. secondarily the control the chinese had over the institutions in the united states we should have might have trusted. like cdc, like the w.h.o., that exposed these institutions were not necessarily to be trusted. finally it is what we showed you, it is the media who wint to great lengths to carry water for those institutions. then this is why that becomes so important and something many of our viewers already know, why would you trust them on any other story. if it is what it is like on this story, how far should the distrust extend? carley: to add a fourth, sars

came from the region of the world. sars coming from china and covid as well, we need to figure out what the source is we make sure it doesn't happen again. "wall street journal" has a really interesting op-ed. it is titled, wuhan lab theory is a media warning. the news business is headed for trouble. is it woke control its bias as other professions do. i would argue other professions don't control their bias, i.e., nike. pete: media are supposed to call balls and strikes. we know they aren't. they exposed themselves. further portion of the op-ed in "the wall street journal" we at the press dismissed the theory, anti-donald trump spokespeople ridiculed that was good enough for us, orange man bad. we engaged availability bias instead of evidence or lack thereof guide us we adopted attitudes of public figures

whose political or social status we wished to emulate. elites told us one thing. we bought it hook, line and sinker and banned your ability to talk about it. will: how many other stories can you and i apply this to? you and i know many, many stories. the media treated the same in the exact same fashion. ric grenell, former director of the national intelligence agency talk about the royal of media. >> the entire intelligence community believed that it was either an animal to human transmission, or the wuhan lab but the entire d.c. political establishment and media newsrooms all focused on this as a racist comment towards china. now fast forward what we have jim, a whole bunch of people maybe saying it's the lan. i have to be clear there has

been no intelligence released that contradicts or adds to the last statement from 2020. nothing has changed except for the media newsrooms suddenly now are charged up about something that they should have been charged up in april 2020. pete: i love watching potted plant jim acosta, i've been pushing theory for the last year. now someone -- they have absolutely no idea what to say. you when you said we're the arbiters of truth. we told you the truth. maybe new evidence may not be the truth we told you forever? they don't have anything to say. they are naked in the public square. carley: facebook was taking down posts where people were saying this was something that was created in a lab. they were censoring those posts when it very well may be true. we don't have definitive proof. there is more and more, mounting evidence saying this could be the case. we will continue to follow this one for sure. we've been following it all year long, just about the only news

organization that has. speaking of news, turning now to your headlines, seven people are presumed dead after a small plane crashed into a tennessee lake. police say the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a tennessee airport t was headed for palm beach international airport. authorities say the plane belonged to gwen lara a former diet guru, founder of the remnant fellowship church. both she and her husband were onboard. baltimore public schools are allowing students who failed class this is year to move up to the next grade level. the district saying in part, we are going to avoid the punitive approach to failing students. instead we are going to plan for a multiyear academic recovery. schools have seen a surge in failing grades due to the pandemic. nascar set to rev up memorial day weekend with the coca-cola 600 today in charlotte.

kyle larson will start in poll position after a strong qualifying run while two-time winner alex bowman and three-time winner martin truex, jr. will look to add another victory to their tallies. coverage of the nascar coca-cola 600 kicks off at 6:00 p.m. eastern on fox. pete: we'll be watching. turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with our fox weather forecast. rick, good morning. you're chuckling. rick: well-done, pete, well-done. good morning guys. look at this. i hate to do this to you, i pull out the windchill map you don't really do at the end of may but we have it. 36 degrees what it feels like right now in green bay. cool air settled in. if you're in the area, if you're aware really cold, memorial day weekend, not feeling very good. two is areas of storms bring across high plains, bringing severe weather mostly in the form of pretty strong winds and some hail with some of those

storms. look at that some will fall so much that we'll look at a little bit of localized flooding. mid-atlantic, north ease not getting any kind of a break today. some rain will be heavy at times. future radar by this afternoon, really heavy rain comes in we're dealing with that until midday tomorrow. we'll start to see a little bit of sunshine. guys, back to you. pete: need a weatherman umbrella. carley: got mine in my office. pete: thank you, rick. rick: thank you. pete: piers morgan looking for return to "good morning britain" after being canceled. maybe the ratings are not working. the network is starting talks. one company promotes stars and stripes to support our heroes. matt best has his own patriotic company. they react coming up next.

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company. ace hardware is handing out a million flags this memorial day weekend. what is your reaction? >> no, i think it is awesome. to your point this woke culture is taking over businesses. it seems that you know, even politics is a part of patriotism today. memorial day should be a bipartisan issue. this is something about memorializing, being thankful of service for men and women who gave everything for this country, generation after generation. awesome to see other businesses like ours, to do something really thoughtful. carley: that is right. black rifle coffee a lot of our viewers know, you guys do a lot to give back to the veteran, law enforcement community. you just released a new music video honoring veterans ahead of memorial day weekend as well. i believe we have a clip we'll play right now. take a look.

♪. carley: wow, if you want to watch the whole thing, go to matt best's youtube channel on an corner of your screen there. what inspired you to make this video? >> you know every year we try to do something special for memorial day. it means so much to us, obviously serving in the military, most all of our friend lot of people overseas. this was an exercise of getting together, memorializing our friends, telling stories honestly about people that served and we knew. it was a very special experience for us. almost healing for a lot of the guys and gals. there is amazing american heroes in that video. a bunch of guys that are

absolutely incredible t was a great opportunity for us to come together to remember our fallen friends. carley: we've been telling specific stories of fallen heroes all throughout the morning s there anybody in particular you like to remember this morning. >> dale and ricardo were my squad leaders that passed away overseas. i carry them with me wherever i go. i wouldn't be the man i am today without them. i hope you read up on their story. carley: absolutely. this weekend this day is for them. matt, thank you so much for joining news thank you, guys. carley: sharing with us that music video. it's a great one. go to matt's youtube channel if you want to watch the whole thing. thanks, matt. >> thank you. carley: rutgers university goes act and forth initially condemning attacks against israel a student from the school joins us live about the controversy

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pete: rutgers university apologizing twice after condemning antisemitic attacks. now the university president stepping into the fray saying it was not a apology. in a new statement, we have not, nor would we ever apologize for standing against anti-semitism. at rutgers we believe anti-semitism, antiinhue ditch, islamophobia, all forms of intolerance, xenophobia, racism are condemned wherever they occur. we have a rutgers student peter cordi here. they issued a statement condemning anti-semitism. which we made earlier in the program. they were they went out seemingly got backlash t was not pro-palestinian enough. put out a pro-palestinian. then the president weighed in we disregard all hatred. what is it like to be on the campus with all the messages coming out. >> emotions flared all sides.

this has led to rise ever anti-semitism in person and on and off campus. twitter in the span of one leak are the antidefamation reported 17,000 tweets featuring the hashtag hitler was right. on top of a sharp increase in violence and harrassment against jews. my chancellor i condemn him for what he did denouncing attacks of anti-semitism, members of the palestinian community were outraged. as you said this led my chancellor having to apologize going back and forth for the simple fact denouncing anti-semitism something used to be uncontroversial. leads me to act what about condemning acts of violence against jews require an apology? why can't we call it an apology? pete: why can't they? because faculty, others that are at places like rutgers are openly anti-israel, pro-palestinian and, as a result, any university president

making that -- it was very clear, good statement, against anti-semitism. there hasn't been a problem of people going and attacking palestinian members in america. why can't they just stand by the statement? >> our absolutely right. israel is one of our closest allies. there used to be almost plan must support for the state especially after the second world war. supporters of the jewish refugee state are becoming a minority in college. while it used to be uncontroversial to stand up for the jewish community. today such an action like you see demands an apology. this one grace in a growing trend of anti-israel on campus. leadership institute campus reform reported incidents in syracuse a professor and student were docked and threatened for the stance on israel and other schools like berkeley in california. pete: do you feel like as a student in university right now there is not overt, sort of a quiet anti-semitism, a belief the state of israel is, is an

apartheid state? it is not legitimate? do you feel, is there a sentiment of that? >> absolutely. it is especially our professors but also celebrities that have putting, they have been putting jews in the class of privileged oppressors. when you have people in positions of societal authority pushing actual hamas propaganda like israel is targeting hospital the and schools to kill civilians, the emotional youth will passionately pick a side but this is the kind of rhetoric that led to the scapegoating and organized violence against jews in 20th century europe. as the saying goes those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. a lover of humanity and student of jewish dissent troubles me greatly. leftists should study history more. pete: great point. look what hamas stands for, or lgbt groups supporting if you were gay or lesbian there you

would not be alive. check the facts for one quick second. peter, thank you very much for speaking up. good luck at rutgers. >> thank you. pete: thank you. coming up remembering the fallen. a naval academy professor's mission to keep american heroes memories alive. ♪.

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♪ >> loving, nice, kind, generous person. >> rob was a guiding light to me while we served together and and he is still a guiding light this day. >> as a brother, friend, true heartfelt leader he will live on through the many memories he made and the many more lives he touched throughout his time at home and in the service. will: as we honor america's heroes this mem norm day we're hearing more about the marine lieutenant robert kelly. kelly was killed by an ied while leading a patrol. his legacy lives on in november of 2010. his legacy lives on thanks to one naval academy professor each semester gives his students a fallen hero's dog tags. he asks that the midshipmen learn their fellow marines and naval officers stories and share them with the classrooms. we have oliver freed of the

midshipmen project and thomas newman who served with kelly and gold star sister of kelly. start with you, what an incredible project, we share with the individual names and pictures and stories behind those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on this memorial day weekend. tell us how you came up the idea of this pro wreck, giving each midshipmen at the naval academy a dog tag and sharing the story of that fallen sailor. >> sure. i have my own personal duty and responsibility to carry my friend's legacy forward. the classroom provides us a space to tell stories. i think it is important at the phase of these midshipmen's careers to help them understand that sacred oath and that obligation by giving them a physical link, this is the first marine. learn their stories. learn they are somebody's most

prized possession and i think at this insipient phase of their career it was important to imbue them with the sacredness and obligation and weight of our office we're in charge of. will: oliver, you were tasked with robert kelly's story. tell us what you learned about him? share some of his story with us today? >> first like to thank my team members connor and lily team members and even better friends so a lot of the comments from the video showed really a strong theme between servicemembers and who understood the sacrifice that first lieutenant kelly made. there was clear there was a common bond between a lot of the servicemembers past and present who saw our video. that really spoke to the bond in the military service. i actually know major schuman has a non-profit whose own-goal and mission to foster the bonn between servicemembers no matter who served in the past and are currently serving. to really recreate the community

so important. i guess if in someone i can recreate the community in some small part all the while sharing first lieutenant robert kelly's story i've done more than i could ask for. will: kathleen, you are first lieutenant kelly's sister. tell us what it means to you and your family to hear his story, not just remembered, brought to life by the midshipmen at the naval academy. >> myself around my family will never get tired of hearing about my big brother. he was an incredible person. meant a lot to be involved in a video like this. very thankful to tom and the midshipmen putting such professional time to it t means the world to us. will: oliver, i would love to go back to you. you talked about the community this helps maintain. tell us about first lieutenant kelly's story, the one you had to share with your classmates. >> yeah. obviously he was from what i gathered, really the standard is what i've been constantly told. he was the standard.

his conduct, he pushed his marines hard but he pushed them so that he would save their lives in combat essentially. to me that is the delicate balance. you have to run as an officer is how are you going to treat your marines, and what kind of view are you going to have to keep them safe in combat accomplishing the mission. what i learned robert kelly really set the example, he set the standard for marines in that unit. i know marines in the whole corps who know of first lieutenant robert kelly and see how he pushed his marines. how he, how he treated them. how he cared for them deeply as a brother and how he cared for his peers as well. will: major shuman, every midshipman gets a dog tag. you're hearing dozens of stories within your class. comes in the form of video projects? how do they present the story to the class? >> the only requirement is that

public space. i allow them to determine the media. i asked them to talk to the gold star mom. talk to the gold star wife. talk to the gold star sister. as they put this puzzle piece together who this person was allow that to inform them how they end up telling the story. we've done podcasts websites, youtube videos. some of them have gone down into the community and just told the story. one of them made a book for having to present to his son. i don't, i don't try to restrain what medium they use. i tell them learn the story, learn about the marines, find a medium that will honor the legacy, kathleen, final word to you i assume your family was not the end viewer. major schuman talked about the public face and you talked about video oliver made and part of the process about your interviews with first lieutenant kelly's story? >> i was. i got to say gold star siblings are not always involved in

projects like this. we're kind of a, we're kind of a sideline population within the gold star community for good intentions. usually the parents or spouses of those who have been killed in action overseas are first to be contacted for things like this. to represent the gold star sibling population. talk about my brother which i could do all day, every day, to anyone that wants to listen to me it, was an incredible video, very well-done. i'm very thankful to be be a part of it. will: incredible video, incredible project, incredible idea. major thank you very much. midshipman, kathleen fox, thanks for being on the program. >> thank you. >> thank you. will: pete, over to you. pete: great stuff. turning now to your headlines starting with a fox news alert. overnight more than 20 people are shot at a concert in florida. at least two people are dead. the concert was held at a banquet hall in the miami area.

three men drove up in a white nissan path finder and fired on the crowd. two are dead, one is in critical condition. police believe the shooting was targeted. a developing story. we'll bring you updates throughout the morning. an indianapolis police officer is released from the hospital after being shot multiple times. the officer was responding to a shooting on the northwest side, when the suspect drove off. the officer chased the suspect and the two exchanged fire. the suspect is in critical condition. the peris expected to be okay. piers morgan says "good morning britain" wants him back. he famously resigned after walking off the show's set to his backlash of his criticism of meghan markle. >> i understand you don't like meghan markle. you continue to trash her. >> i'm done with this. no, no. sorry, cannot do this. will: the sun reports without

morgan the show is seeing a huge slump in ratings. morgan hasn't confirmed he will return, only saying quote, never say never. turns out people want interesting opinions. get ready nathan's hot dog eating contest returns july 4th in front after live audience. it will be held outdoors in coney island but in a new location. competitors face off with namaniedes park? carley: all from coney island. pete: a few steps from the contest's traditional location in front of nathan's flagship restaurant. raining champ, joey jaws chestnut will be there. he is ready to do it the right way after last year's competition was held indoors without a live audience because of covid-19 and those are the headlines. that means here on "fox & friends" we'll do a hot dog eating contest, will

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♪ >> going above and beyond. they're -- taking everything. >> they sell it to bodegas. if we allow thefts like that it will be word-of-mouth you can go to cvs and take and pawn yourself whatever you want. cynthia nixon, i don't think you understand what is going on. carley: there it is. a "daily mail" exclusive a cvs manager is firing back at progressive actress cynthia nixon after she slammed his store locking up store items like laundry detergent. pete: in a recent tweet i can't imagine the way to stop solving people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them. radio talk show host mike slater is here to react. who cares what cynthia nixon has to say. we've seen her suggestion play out in cities across the country, notably in california where shoplifting has sort of become an an prosecutable crime.

they're letting it go. that is having a real world effect. >> believe it or not the people of california in 2014 voted to essentially legalize shoplifting. you have can steal up to $950 worth of stuff. it is merely a misdemeanor on top of that we elected d.a.s, san francisco, across the country who refuse to prosecute. cynthia nixon is crazy. we have the same crazy people who are running a cities. they have never run a store. i don't know how they think it will work if pay something optional. criminals are smart. they know what they can get away with. pete: talk about how it works. 17 walgreens closed their stores completely out there because people are walking away with stuff. no one is holding them accountable because they're is no incentive. >> cynthia nixon all the activists make it seem like single mother is walking in stealing a dozen eggs in her purse to feed her poor children. no, these are people strolling in with a cart, emptying of

shelves of cough medicine, strolling right out. granding grabbing all the beef jerky because they can. they're framing it as a poor victim. no, no. that is not what is really going on. carley: what i thought funny about this, cynthia nixon is so out of touch with normal people, literally everybody lives in new york city knows that cvs drugstores put their stuff under lock and key because people are stealing it to make money. no one is under the impression because of poverty. the fact she thinks it is shows she is lacking in reality in some way. how dare cvs try to make money? oh, my goodness. what corporate greed. >> has there ever been a society where store owners are criticized for not wanting things stolen? here is what i would say. they have to raise prices because people are stealing stuff or shut down. activists come in, oh, how dare they raise prices. things are so expensive here.

how dare there be no investment in the communities. then people can't find jobs. what do people do? they join gangs, sell drugs. need to steal more. spiral continues. activists advocating policies, putting them in action, are creating more poverty. pete: there is no walgreens in the underserved neighborhoods anymore. no pharmacy, no basic items. some of these places t hurts very people they are supposed to help. >> 100%. a old book, i know we got to go. old book a lot of people think it is obsolete. there is 10 rules in it, one is thou shalt not steal. there is no at terrific, thou shalt not steal unless you need to, unless cynthia nixon says it is okay or not getting caught. pete: i didn't know where he was going. mike, good perspective. >> appreciate you. will: still ahead if the weekend plans call for firing up the grill, our next guest will bring

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to the top stripes and the stars. pete: you have stripped barrel down. already painted some of it and now you're, what are you nail it together? how do you put it together? >> so each individual sleeve we screw into each other, pretty much right on top of each other. pete: very cool. carley: very interesting. we'll check back in with you guys all morning long. keep the process going. we can't wait to see the finished product. pete: don't be late. >> thank you. carley: memorial day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer f you're firing up the grill today our next guest has some tips to bring your barbecue to the next level. will: want it to look like this, lobster tails, rib-eye burgers, outside of his store in norwalk, connecticut, the president and ceo of stew leonard's, stew leonard, jr. we're set up. it is beautiful. good morning. i will turn it over to you, you tell us how to make our home

barbecue look like this while we eat it. carley: heck yeah. >> at stew leonard's, new york, new jersey, connecticut, we sell over three million burgers a year, okay? we got our butchers together, we'll do something special for you. before we do that, our heart goes out to all the veterans. thank you for everything you've done for our country. we're here as a free country thanks to you. that is the one thing. the second thing we're not doing normal hamburger. this is like the normal burgers we sell at the store, buy them to put on the grill. what we did, we took one of these guys, this is a rib-eye tomahawk. this is like the steak that all of our ranchers when they come back from the midwest, when they come to visit us, what do you want to eat? this is it. what we did we mixed some normal burger with this rib-eye, okay.

pete: rib-eye burger. >> voila we end up with this right here. you can see and hear the marbling. pete: has extra marbling and fat in it which is the flavor? >> that is exactly right. it gives you the flavor with marbling. we certainty one out to a rancher in montana, said the best burger he ever ate. our butchers say it is the best burger. what we're doing, make grilling fun. put that on the grill. we'll cook that five minutes a side. and don't squish the burger down when you go to flip it, okay? you will see the juices start to come out. what you do then, time to take and flip the burger. when you see the juices come out. here is a trick that you can use, thermometers most people too complicated. you can take, put your finger on the burger, when it is firm,

it's done, okay? you want it 160 degrees. that will give you about a 160-degree burger. after you're done with that, you know what you want is cheese, okay? you got to put cheese on it. i like extra cheese, right? pete: agreed. >> i don't know about you. i always do that. we have some nice burgers right here that are pretty well melted down and ready to go. carley: yeah. >> next thing we'll let the cheese melt. the next thing you have is the lobster tail. right here. carley: just a casual lobster tail. >> this is a home run at the holidays. all you do is take scissors, cut it. you can see the tail will come out like that. then when you do is just squeeze the shell together a little bit and it will lay on top of the shell like that. will: on our table. laying on top with the grill marks. carley: stew, i love your grocery stores.

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ultimate sacrifice sending them to friends@foxnews.com. pete: like this one from calvin. will: his dad was killed in world war ii. pete: what a powerful statement. he never had the opportunity to meet him. and pictured here, sergeant devon snyder who was killed in 2011 when insurgents attacked her unit in afghanistan. carr california and here's one from barbara of her brother eddie killed in vietnam just a few weeks after he turned 20 years old. we remember these heroes and all service members who lost their lives fighting for our country. send us your memorial pictures, keep them coming in at friends@foxnews.com. we'll be showing them all morning long. pete: a baby. right? so powerful -- carley: clearly, he had a big heart for the country and gave his life defending it.

pete: yeah. so many people live so many years on earth and never collecting the sort of basic fortitude that that young lady and that young kid had in doing what they did for our nation. so we just had a great cheeseburger. will, you're still working on yours. trust me, he is, and all of america will be doing that. but just, we implore you and ask you to have the appreciation for what these men and women have given for all of us. that's the real meaning today. carley: well, somebody who did give a lot for our country, congressman ryan mack of florida, retire thed the army ranger, friend of the show. good morning, sir, thank you for your service and sacrifice on this day. >> good morning. carley: i'd like to start off with your memorial day message, if you're remembering anyone in particular and what this day and weekend means to you. >> i ve a wrist full of -- i have a wrist full of names that i wear.

i used to track of how many friends i'd lost are, bomb techs and rangersothers that i knew from all branches. i stopped counting at 67. i still know all of those that i served with of that have still left this world, but i just stopped counting. so my message to people is this: make it personal. we all have somebody from our hometown or a school that we went to or somebody from our own families or somebody that we served with. make memorial day personal. remember their name and talk about their story and tell it to your kids and talk about what they did. so that they know that there are real heros in this world and what it was that they stood for and fought for and loved. will: that's a great message so that it doesn't remain abstract from far away. bring it home, make it a story you can identify with. did you think, congressman, our nation's leaders did a good job of leading up to -- living up to that standard? here is a tweet from vice

president kamala harris. enjoy the long weekend with a selfie, a picture of herself looking off into the distance. and here is a tweet from president joe biden, stay cool this weekend, folks. again the ice cream. what do you think, congressman? >> i think it's a far cry from incredible words and speeches that i've heard from ronald reagan, right? you think back to his heroes speech, for those who think there are no more heroes in this world, they just don't know where to look. you go to the sloping hills of arlington cemetery and the row upon row of white crosses, those are each one of them a memorial to the heroes in this world, and i would say their thoughts are a far cry from the patriotism i've seen out of ohs. pete: congressman, those are tweets, and they're vapid and they miss the point, but they might argue, okay, we're going to give a speech, and we're going to demonstrate our love

are for the fallen memorial day weekend, but they've also had another chance, this white house to, to continue a tradition, a motorcycle ride happening today. you had to fight to make sure it actually happened. can you help us unpack why wouldn't it be embraced by the white house9 and the pentagon? >> i'm giving you my opinion at this point, and it's because i think they see a lot of the culture just as pawns. i think -- and that's a really painful thing to say. i think this white house sees many of those in service, and they'd rather see an early of the woke -- an army of the woke than an army of the imperfect bad asses that we served alongside. and i would take one of them over an army of the woke. and i think there's a resentment in that, truly. that's how i feel about the situation. carley: yeah. and it's the not just on capitol hill. in staten island there was a run to honor staff sergeant michael

ollis, and it was canceled, there was a lot of backlash about that. mayor bill de blasio changed his mind, thankfully. covid-19 is not an excuse. in the meantime, let's get to the president's budget. he just announced his $6 trillion budget. the wall street editorial board is depicting it like this, they say as the pandemic finally eases due to vaccines, the emergency spending of the last two fiscal years should recede. the booming economy doesn't need it. consumers are flushed with covid relief payments and demand is soaring, yet mr. binden wants to keep using the cover of covid to sneak through an expansion of government that would be historic and permanent. what's your reaction to that and your top-line thoughts on the $6 trillion budget. >> yeah. well, every policy that they're implementing is to take away generational with wealth, whether it's the many layers of tax policy, whether it's

inflating away anything that you've gone out there and saved in a 401(k) or anything else to include printing, and we say, oh, they're going to print $6 trillion. they don't actually even print it, they really just move a couple decimal points on a computer screen and don't even take the time to print it. that's how bad it literally is. these policies are going to hurt every single one of us in the end, and it's because i think in the end they're looking at it and saying they have no other way because they don't have good policies. they have of no other way to win an election other than to think they can go out there and buy the vote of somebody in the american populace. and i i think they're dead wrong. will: congressman, want to ask you about a story coming from your home state. we've talked this morning about the legality of private businesses creating two classes of either employees or customers when it comes to the vaccine. a great example is coming where a concert promotor is charging vaccinated people $18 for a

ticket and unvaccinated people $1,000 per ticket. this is a private business who has the ability to structure their pay systems however they want, but it's clearly creating a divide in the society. what are your thoughts? >> they're trying to make that divide. we've seen the idea of passports creeping its way into society, we've seen it with speaker pelosi wanting to charge people for not wearing masks even though the it says, you know, we really don't have to with the cdc guidelines. we see employers, as you pointed out, believing that they can have the right to know their employee's medical history and medical files, that they have to somehow open them up to their employers or they can get toured. and this is just going to continue on and on and on if we don't stop it head on. if we don't just put a fist out there, hit it in the nose and say, no, this is not going to continue any further. and if you're going to have those policy, this is america,

maybe you have the right to charge the way that you want, we're not going to participate with your venue. i'm vaccinated, i wouldn't go if you paid for my ticket, and that's got to be the way we look at this. pete: real quick, can you do it even on the floor of the house of representatives they're demanding masks even though people are vaccinated? if how does washington get out of our way? >> it's tough. you're asking a question in that's hard to answer. you've just got to find that way to say you're not going to put your thumb over me. you're not going to put my thumb down under the name of, quote, security for everybody else for us to wear a mask or be vaccinated or anything else. that's not the more than way. that's the fundamental difference that you saw between governor desantis and so many other states. he gave americans, floridians the right to say, listen, there are risks out there, but you bear out those risks the way that you feel best. you spend as much time outside as you want around don't, in a

grocery store or don't. that is your right to determine your risk and not the government's job to do it. and that's that fundamental difference that we've seen done really well in some places and really poorly in others. will: congressman brian mast, thank you for joining us this morning. carley: thank you the, congressman. thanks for your sacrifice as well. >> wish you all the best. will: turning now to your headlines starting with a fox news alert. an explosion erupts at an oil refinery e in west virginia, the facility going up in flames force officials to evacuate homes one mile in each direction. firefighters have gotten the fire under control. an investigation is you should way, no injuries reported. a grandmother in pennsylvania fulfilled her lifelong dream of getting a college degree. mary ann wickermeyer graduated with high honors. she is studied liberal arts. the 71-year-old says life always got in the way of pursuing her

education, so she decided to hit the books during her down time in the pandemic. she went to college to, quote, enrich herself. and those are your headlines. carley: god bless her. pete: harder to indoctrinate. [laughter] carley: yeah, i think at that age you already have your opinions formed. coming up, a college in missouri is bringing students directly to the battlefield to hear directly from the brave men and women who fought for our freedom. more about that patriotic program coming up next. ♪ red, white and blue ♪♪ you need a financial plan that can help grow and protect your money. an annuity can help cover essential expenses in retirement, so you can live the life you want. this is what an annuity can do. learn more at protectedincome.org.

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is giving their students a once in a lifetime opportunity to understand the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. their patriotic education travel program pairs students with vets and takes them to the battlefield where they fought for our freedom. the school's president, dr. jerry davis, documented one of the classes in his new book, "vietnam 101." dr. davis joins us now to tell us more along with graduate lily woolsey and vietnam war veteran and former p.o.w. retired colonel john clark. thank you so much. dr. davis, congratulations on the book. it outlines this program and these experiences that both veterans and students have trying to get a better connection through an understanding of sacrifice, am i right? >> absolutely you're right. and i think it helps us build a bridge between the generation that fought the vietnam war and

the generation that's living now. and it's been very meaningful to all of us that have taken part in it, and i don't think any of us that went on those trips will ever be the psalm. pete: absolutely. colonel, you spent six years in the hanoi hilton, you were a prisoner of war, yet you participate in this program that talks students with you to understand your experience. what was that like? >> it was wonderful. i enjoyed it so much, and the students enjoyed it, but they were very interested, and the other veterans that went on the trip talked like you never heard a veteran talk before. pete: opened up. lily, that must be almost intimidating, going back -- going to vietnam with someone who served there. what did you take away from that? >> as a current third grade teacher, this trip has incredibly impacted the way i

teach. these men like colonel john clark have impacted the way that i teach. like the president said, nothing was ever the same once i came back. pete: what changed? >> my awareness, my appreciation, saying that freedom isn't free, you never know the cost until you sit down with a veteran and you actually hear the price that they pay. pete: absolutely. dr. davis, you've made spreading the appreciation for freedom your life's mission there at the college of the ozarkses. you're sitting in front of that beautiful memorial you have there honoring those who served, honoring our great country. are we doing enough as a nation to spread that appreciation? >> we certainly have not been doing enough, and i think we have an opportunity now given the condition of our culture to reaffirm just, in fact, what america represents. and back during the '60s when

things were coming apart, the military was blamed for everything. i mean, it was used as a scapegoat for every conceivable grievance in society. now we have people running around taking it out on the police. what we ought to be doing is be glad that we have people who are willing to serve in uniform be it military or police that make our lives safe and possible, and more credit needs to be given to these people. i had two brothers in vietnam. my younger brother was a combat veteran. his wife was part of a gold star family. i don't need anybody to tell me what sacrifice is about. if you look at the wall behind me here, you see the names of 1410 from missouri that died during the war out of the 58,000 or so on the wall in washington d.c. this should be a reminder to all

of us. and the comments made earlier from the president and vice president, to me, are not inspiring at all. i mean, on memorial day of all days, we ought to thank god we hiv in this country. and for those -- who live in this country and for those people who defend it. and we should support them any way we could. and we need to do more, and it especially needs to start in the educational system. pete: well, you're doing it, dr. davis. you're living out the words you've written down in "vietnam 101" and you just shared so eloquently. lily woolsey and colonel john clark, thank you both for being here, for your experiences, and, colonel, i know there's a lot of people you think about today as well. >> pete, could i say that a combat veteran has made a gift so that we can give complimentary copies to people who go to web site,

vietnam101.org, and we'll give them away as long as they last. don't be late. pete: don't be late. wise words with. vietnam101.org, check it out. what a generous offer. >> thank you. pete: thank you so much. happy memorial day. >> thank you. pete: great stuff. till good in the world. coming up, filing suit. dozens of workers at a hospital are taking legal action after being told they have to get the covid vaccine. a fired employee joins us live next. i'm so glad you're ok, sgt. houston. this is sam with usaa. do you see the tow truck? yes, thank you, that was fast. sgt. houston never expected this to happen. or that her grandpa's dog tags would be left behind. but that one call got her a tow and rental... ...paid her claim... ...and we even pulled a few strings.

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carley: back with a fox news alert, an overnight shooting leaves two people dead and more than 20 others hurt in florida. police say three men showed up at a concert in the miami area and opened fire on a crowd inside the venn you.

the injured have been take telephoning to the hospitals in broward and miami-dade counties. one of them is in critical condition. no arrests have been made so far. police believe the shooting was targeted. let's bring in alfredo ramirez, director of the miami-dade police department. he's joining us live on the phone. sir, what is the latest on the shooting? what can you tell us? what do we know right now? >> good morning. a terrible act of violence, of gun violence last night. what we had last night, it was a billiard hall that was being rented out for a music performance. the victims were standing outside of the billiard hall when this white nissan pathfinder pulled up. three men exited, one or two of them with assault rifles, and began shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. unfortunately, 2 were deceased of the 20 injured, transported to the hospital, my condolences to the families. this gun violence issue's gotta stop.

our homicide teams are out there, they're following up on leads. we're asking for the community's help, and, you know, we're just working it hard and trying to bring justice to the families and put an end to this situation. i mean, this is horrible. carley: you say it was a white nissan pathfinder, that's going to be critical to apprehending these suspects. what are police doing right now to catch these guys? >> right now we're canvassing the area. we're looking at videos from the strip mall. our detectives are out there on the street working with our informants and working with our community members and trying to get tips through our 305-471 opportunities hotline. and at the end of the i day, the detectives do what they do, but it's the community that helps us the most. they're the eyes and ears on the street, and we definitely want to get these murderers off the street. carley: officer ramirez, thank you so much for the latest on this tragedy. keep us posted as the news changes. thank you. >> thank you so much.

carley: will? will: thanks. a texas hospital's being sued by more than 100 hospitals over its vaccine mandate. houston methodist hospital is requiring every employee to require proof of vaccination by june 7th or their job could be at risk. our next guest was fired earlier this year after refusing to be vaccinated. bob nevin and his attorney join us now. they said you need to get a vaccine, you said no, now you're unemployed? >> that's a great summary, thanks for having me. yeah. i was fired after giving two weeks to make the decision to take the vaccine. that was on april 1st. on april 15th i was put on a two week unpaid suspension and then, ultimately, on april 29th i was fired for not taking the experimental vaccine. will: and, bob, what is your

hesitation? why do you not want to either do it at your employer's mandate or make that choice for yourself? >> well, i think me and just all the other employees at methodist who are involved in the lawsuit, we simply wanted more time to9 wait until it's fda-approved, til it's time-tested. that's really the main thing behind it. i think everybody has their own personal situation and experience with covid, and at the time this was all happening being mandated for my employment, you know, i was having friends experience severe side effects from it, and, you know, that ultimately played into my decision. but i think everybody has their own personal experience with covid, and that's' what mine led me to. will: jared, bob brought up an interesting point, the vaccine is still only proven for emergency use. we've talked throughout the morning with various attorneys and experts, and it does appear

that employers do have the ability to mandate. so tell us what your suit, what law your institute hinges on. >> sure. and, you know, this is the first time in the history of our country where we've had a private employer come in and say to its employees as a condition of employment, you're going to have to be a human guinea pig. you're going to have to be part of an experimental vaccine trial. what we do know is federal law makes it very clear, as does state law, that you can't force someone to be part of an experimental vaccine trial. so in this case what we have is the defendant, houston methodist, who is saying this and using it to promote profits, they're seasoning out marketing material -- sending out marketing material saying all of our employees have received this experimental vaccine, and because they have done so, you should lee your particular -- leave your particular health care provider and come to us. the problem with that line of marketing is you're saying to folks like bob that you're going to be our test case.

and for folks like bob and the 107 other folks that i represent, this is a question of being able to pay their house notes, pay their car notes, provide for their families and avoid bankruptcy, and it's just plain wrong. will: i want to read to you statement from houston methodist. 99 of houston methodist, 26,000 employees have met the requirements. it's the unfortunate that a few remaining employees who refuse to get vaccinated and put our patients first are responding in this way. welcome back, i'm going to come back -- bob, i'm going to come back to you. jared, you certainly highlighted it is the experimental nature, the emergency use authorization of this vaccine that is giving, at least in your case, you some hesitation and giving jared the place on which this lawsuit hinges. would it change your personal calculation if the vaccine received full fda approval in. >> well, and, will, i think it changes the whole legal land incape. i think that's the big issue. this vaccine hasn't been on the market for even a year now, so

we clearly don't know the long-term effects, and when you have a group like houston methodist selling it as already approved -- will: and, bob, really quickly, would it change your analysis if it were fully fda approved? >> well, i think it certainly will, but still there's no time test behind the vaccine. will: right. interesting development. we'll be watching your lawsuit, can an employer mandate this vaccine. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. >> the thank you. >> thank you, will. will: you bet. coming up, the nation's greats defenders are taking on grueling, nonstop challenges for a frendly competition. we'll find out what it takes to become america's top ranger next. ♪♪

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♪♪ carley: good morning. back with some headlines. an indianapolis police officer is released from the hospital after being shot multiple times. police say the officer was responding to a shooting on the city's northwest side when the suspect drove off. the officer chased the suspect, and the two exes changed tour. -- exchanged fire. the suspect is in critical condition, the officer is expected to be okay. american and southwest airlines are delaying plans to resume serving alcohol on flights. the airlines say it's in response to recent behavior from

unruly passengers including one who assaulted a southwest flight attendant just last week. american says sales won't return to main cabins until september. passenger in first and business class can still buy alcoholic bev languages. -- beverages. nasa releasing this stunning picture of our galaxy downtown. it shows billions of stars and numerous black holes in the center of the mulkey way. the -- milky way. the composite image was created using 370 observations from nas nasa's observatory, the awe strong her spent the past year working on it while stuck inside because of the pandemic. should i try it again? if. pete: yeah, do it. go for it. carley: let's turn to chief meteorologist reduction

reichmuth -- rick reichmuth with our fox weather forecast. was that not right? rick: you nailed it. pete: no, rick, you're being nice. carley, no rick hasn't been nice at all this morning, as a matter of fact. [laughter] rick: i'll take it, i'll take it. meteorologist is way harder -- carley: go ahead, rick. hit us with the worth. save me. rick: there you go. guys, it's cold. it's cold across parts of the knost. another gloomy, really cool day, unfortunately, it's not gonna feel like summer. preprecipitation wise, throughout the day today, precipitation going to fall across participants of the south, texas, oklahoma, we've got the moisture across parts of the northeast. the remainder of this coming week, we have a lot of precipitation across parts of oklahoma and texas that will see localized flooding, a lot of areas looking at 4 plus inches of rain, a little too much, too

quickly. and then take a look at this, florida, finally starting to see rainy season, going to get a lot of moisture. a late start to the runny season this year -- rainy season. get ready, it's about to start. carley: just to be clear, a i've known you for years. i'm just having trouble speaking -- will: the entire time you were speak, hooked on phonics, meteorologist. [laughter] carley: thank you, rick. we love you. rick: you bet. pete: every year dozens of two-men war-fighting teams talk on some of the most grueling, nonstop challenges for the best ranger competition, and fox nation is bringing you along for the 62-hour journey to become america's top ranger. >> climbing up that ladder, i was taking the left side. >> go quickly through the buildings and also shoot the parties that are in front of you. >> not only was it shockingly

cold, but there was a lot of grit and sand that got everywhere inside of your uniform coming out of that and then going immediately into about a 2-mile run over to victory pond. pete: army captain edward voncone and first lieutenant michael singer join us now. gentlemen, thanks for being here. full disclosure, we were supposed to be out there competing with you, but because we are pampered television hosts -- [laughter] they did not allow us to come outside in the rain and do the competition. i would imagine, though, when it's raining during the best ranger competition, they don't just say pause and let you take a rest. >> no, no, definitely not. nonstop for, you know, three days. a lot of high performers, so guys don't really care if it's raining or not. we're all grateful just for the opportunity to compete. definitely a privilege. there's a lot of guys out there, a lot of rangers who get an opportunity, you know, maybe a

top five finisher, but they're deployed, they're doing their real job. they have actual responsibilities. will: so we failed by opting out. what would we have been doing? tell us about the competition first, lieutenant singer. what would you be showing us were it not a driving rain? >> well, first, we'd put a heavy rock on your back and start taking you up and down times square for a few hours -- [laughter] then probably some push-ups in there, then go to a range. we'd mix it up a little bit. i think that's what makes it so hard, it really challenges multiple skills. pete: you're on to something, first lieutenant. some of the portions of the ranger competition, you're told to start marching or told to start running, and you don't know how long or how far you'll be marching. it could be 8 miles, it could be 25. am i right? >> absolutely. that's -- pete: how do you prepare for thatsome. >> really you flare training. preparation -- prepare in

training. we started about four or five months ahead of time and really tried to just become the most well-rounded soldiers and war fighters that educational we cot to set ourselves up for success. will: so it's two-man teams, right? you and i could have been a team -- pete: last place team. will: next year we compete against each other or we apologize in advance for even thinking we're on the same level. pete: but if it rains -- you guys, it was fun. i narrated this three-day competition. just watching the fooage and understanding the -- footage and understanding the course you went through, it is unbelievable what you train for and what you completed. it's called america's top ranger on fox nation featuring these three gentlemen and so many other great patriots. all three days, it reads like espn. you talking about team 32 the,

team 17, all from different units in the army. it's very, very cool. we want the thank the captain, first lieutenants as well. thank you all for being here. >> thank you for having us. pete: and i'm glad we got them a tent and kept them dry. i think they earned it. and don't forget, if you're active duty military or veteran, you can sign up for a free year of fox nation. will: coming up, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding answers on the origin of covid-19. house minority whip steve scalise joins us live as he calls on speaker pelosi to take action on a full investigation. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good ♪

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chairs to launch an official investigation. house minority whip steve scalise joins me now with more. good morning, sir. >> good morning, carley with, good to be with you. carley: you are calling for a congressional investigation into the origins of covid-19. so how sure are you that this congressional investigation will take place, and what sort of information can congress garner through an investigation? >> right. for over a year now, you've had many members of congress and medical experts speculating that this virus may have actually started in a lab in wuhan. not what we were told at the beginning, that it was only bat to human, that it couldn't have been started in a lab. now there's even more science and scientists coming forward that it might have started in a lab, and yet speaker pelosi won't let any of the standing committees investigate this. we've been calling for it. i'm the lead republican on this special select subcommittee on the coronavirus. even that committee on the

coronavirus will not have a hearing on the origins of the virus. hundreds of thousands of americans dead, millions if worldwide. china and the w.h.o. covered so much up at the very beginning, and yet they still won't investigate where this started even as more scientists are saying it very well could have started in a lab as many of us said a year ago to a lot of criticism9 from the left. carley: so why is speaker pelosi not moving on this, and do you think she eventually will? >> well, it's a good question why she's not. there's so many questions about why they've been covering up for china in the democrat-led house right now, you know, why they won't aggressively hold china accountable, why they won't investigate the originses. you even have some democrats finally starting to see we need to have this investigation, and yet speaker pelosi won't allow any of the standing committees to have those very investigations. not one of them has done it. the china commission that we have started up, mike mccall chaired that, she walked away from that committee.

even then they started laying that out a year ago. we've known for a long time this may have started in a lab in wuhan. we were getting reports of that. and look at some of the scientists in china who were getting ill early on from that wuhan lab, and yet they won't have an investigation on it. i don't think what it's going the take, but i think a lot of this noise is starting to break through where speaker pelosi's feeling the heat. carley: speaking of investigations, president biden just called for a 90-day investigation into this very topic, and the new york times says he called for that after the intelligence agents said that there's this trove of evidence that has yet to be looked into. do you know anything about what that ed might be and --ived might be and why it hasn't been looked into yet? >> i can't go into classified information, but just from what you've seen in published reports by respected scientists that are now starting to openly speculate that it may have started in that lab, a lot of strange questions

about what was going on in that a lab in wuhan. very coincidental that you had scientists in the lab getting sick, you had the origin of the virus started in that city, and yet they act as if the lab wasn't even there. we all know the lab was there, and there's very serious questions about the chinese communist party's involvement in that lab. we ought to know about it, the world ought to know about it. why speaker pelosi doesn't want to have investigations is a very curious questions. carley: yeah. it's an important topic. congressman, thank you for taking the action. we appreciate it. >> always great being with you, thanks. carley: still ahead, for the first time ever the most heroic round of golf is taking place on memorial day weekend. we're previewing this weekend's folds of honor patriot golf days next. ♪♪ is now a good time for a flare-up? enough, crohn's!

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♪♪ will: cruise custom flags. carley: let's check in on thing progress with army combat veteran brandon elder. tell us what's going on, how much progress have you made? >> so andrew, as you saw earlier with, has the bottom portion of the stars -- of the stripes, i'm sorry, built, and i'm working on building stars here. so we're about three-quarters of the way down here with the -- done here with the stars. pete: staining the blue base for the stars. >> that is correct, yeah. so we laser etched these with white oak. you get that raised depth, and then we're staining the blue here, this red, white and blue.

we also do it in basic black and white as well. will: normally how long would this entire process take? i assume it's expedited to play out here on "fox & friends" live this morning, how long does it normally take? >> sure. from start to beginning close to seven hours from prepping the barrels to sanding, cutting, staining, the building. quite a bit of craftsmanship goes into it. pete: we'll check back in. chris, keep it going. i know you're keeping it moving. carley: thanks, guys. >> thank you. pete: all right. there are for the first time in its 15-year history, the country's most patriotic round of golf taking place this memorial day weekend as a way to further honor our nation's heroes. carley: here to preview patriot golf days, lieutenant colonel dan rooney along with anthony tucker. lieutenant colonel, tell us about this golfer attorney

expect -- golf tournament and what it does for folds of honor. >> yeah. i think this weekend is really about service before self. that encapsulates the ultimate sacrifice that over one million veterans have made for this country. and it's to the just enough to remember. go do something to say thank you for our freedoms. patriot golf day, go tee it up. we've got millions of golfers that'll play this weekend. they make a donation on patriot golf days.com and, ultimately, we'll be able to change thousands of lives for military families giving them the gift of an education. pete: so play a round of golf today in honor of this, and you're corrupting to a cause greater e -- contributing to a cause greater than yourself. anthony, tell us how winn-dixie is involved inside this. >> good morning. we're so proud to launch now the round-up campaign for folds of honor. come to a grocery store,

winn-dixie, and round up your grocery bill to the nearest dollar, and we'll donate that. we've donated over $4.2 million now for over 1,000 scholarships for our fallen veterans' families. that's the round-up campaign. lieutenant colonel man and i launched -- noonan and i launched it on wednesday in jacksonville, florida, and we run it through the fourth of july. will: lieutenant colonel, it's different this year, you've moved the tournament. what will it be like? how is it different? what can anyone playing in it or watching today expect? >> yeah. so all across the country through memorial day we asked golfers to play their most heroic round. go play at your local golf club, visit patriot golf days.com and donate $5, i want to throw this back to anthony, he is from

wales. they've raised, as he mentioned, over $4 million. this is the spirit of the weekend. it is service before self. he is an amazing patriot, and you don't have to be a patriot put on the u.s. military the uniform to be a patriot. you can serve your country, and that is, in my opinion, what this weekend is all about. we're blessed to have winn-dixie as america's most patriotic grocery store the, and then the our friends from anheuser-busch just launched this, the new budweiser donating a dollar, in fact, they've donated over $20 million to folds of honor. and, pete, in your honor, we do this every year, it is not too early to start memorial day weekend -- [laughter] so i'm going to have a little sip.

cheers to you guys, to america and to those that serve. god bless anthony and everybody -- pete: i love it. go to winn-dixie, buy some budweiser, and then go play a round of golf for a great cause. check a lot of the right boxes. >> and drink a budweiser, pete. you're really good at that. pete: you didn't send me one, colonel. that's my only beef with you right now. it's objection. [laughter] -- it's okay. >> special delivery coming. pete: all right, perfect. more "fox & friends" on the other side. . .

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performance. colonel dan rooney behind us. pete: phil vasser playing. colonel rooney drinking. it is only 9:00. it is beautiful. play a round of golf, donate to folds of honor. we're hear from phil vasser later this hour. carley: we're honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our heroes. will: friends@foxnews.com, starting with u.s. army staff sergeant, john allen price. he was killed on pearl harbor day while stationed stationed ii during world war ii. carley: dawn sent this photo of his marine brother tom taken one month before he was killed in vietnam in 1968. pete: pictured here, private first class derek gibson killed in iraq in 2004. he was just 20 years old. they're all so young. remember these heroes. all those men and women who lost

their lives fighting for our country. send us your memorial day tribute pictures at friends@foxnews.com. if we can't get to it today but hopefully we'll do it tomorrow. it may not happen everywhere but here we take very seriously the deep and true meaning of this day. we cover the news. we talk about politics a lot. of course we love spending time with family. a lot of people are traveling with the barbecues in your backyard. pause to take a moment with your kids, grandkids, remind them how this day was purchased for them by people who will never know the marriage orbiter of a child, these young kids who understood service greater than themself who gave it all for us. >> that is beautifully said. when you do the celebrations today, even remember one of the faces we showed you this morning and thank god for their lives and what they have given us. will: meanwhile pete hinted at that a moment ago but there are other messages out there for you

this weekend as well, starting with this from vice president kamala harris who encourages everyone to enjoy the long weekend accompanied by a photograph of herself. that photograph, that tweet, did prompt some outrage, did prompt a sons like this from our own joey jones, combat veteran, fox news contributor, hey, kamala harris my buddies wanted me to post-their selfie for you to enjoy the long weekend standing in front of pictures of fallen comrades. pete: i will say, check this, this morning when we came into the show she had not tweeted. clearly getting the message this is unacceptable. vice president tweeted couple hours ago throughout our history, our service and men and women risked everything to defend our country. as we prepare to honor memorial day we prepare to honor their sacrifice. clearly the message got to the white house. this is about more than a long weekend, if your first instinct is that, enjoy the long weekend, everybody, you probably aren't

oriented. >> her or staff member who posted that, it struck the total wrong chord considering what we've been talking about all morning why we have this long weekend and the amazing people who gave their lives so we could enjoy the hotdogs, the family, all the silly things and our loved ones as well. remember that video from yesterday that the campus reform video where a lot of college students were saying that they would sign a petition to abolish memorial day because it celebrates imperialism. pete: colonialism. carley: can you believe that is happening in our country right now? that is a group of growing group of people because of college campuses they're being taught this country is systematically racist and it shouldn't be celebrated. so unfortunate. will: i can't believe it. unfortunately that is believable. you brought up the white house. they're responding at least vice president kamala harris responding to some backlash to that tweet. here is a tweet from president joe biden, stay cool this weekend folks, leaning into the

ice cream themed news cycle over last couple days. pete: he gets love for ice cream and trump had two scoops. you only got one. carley: the cokes and all that. will: congressman brian mast was on with us a little earlier. here is what he had to say about the vice president and president's message this is weekend. >> it's a far cry from incredible words and speeches that i heard from people like ronald reagan's, right? you think back to his heros speech. for those who think there are no more heroes in this world, they just don't know where to look. go to the sloping hills of arlington cemetery, the row upon row of plain white markers labeled with crosses or stars of david. each one of them a memorial to the heroes of this world. i would say their thoughts are a far cry from the patriotism i have seen out of others. they would rather see the army of the woke, army of the

imperfect bad asses we served alongside. i would take one of them over an army of the woke peet peet well-said. you meet the guys that do the tough stuff on our behalf. they may be rough around edges, when you need somebody that is who you call. carley: for sure. pete: will, you made a great point during the show, talking about how during covid especially pertains to a lot of things, especially on voting a lot of emergency measures were taken making it easier for people to vote during covid-19. now states was saying that was during covid, because we had to. we'll rein it back in because of worries of irregularities. we want voter integrity. the white house and democrats scream it is racist if you take away the changes made because of covid-19. texas is now front and center on that. will: it is voter suppression if you don't keep covid protocols forever. we're seeing that theme play out from the president's budget proposal, any laws that would

take the emergency measures put in place during covid reduce them back to a normal standard like the texas voting bill. it bans drive-through voting. bans 24 hours voting. requires voters to request absentee ballots than require them to push it them out to everyone. curtails use of dropboxes. early voting ours from 6:00 a.m., to 9:00 p.m. pretty long. just like what happened in georgia texas is now front and center as a state, quote, unquote pushing voter suppression. carley: that's right. so texas governor greg abbott all of those things are making sure you curtail cheating but president biden said this on this texas senate bill. he said today texas legislators joins that and georgia that attacks the sacred right to vote. part of assault on democracy

we've seen too much this year, targeting black and brown americans. it is wrong and un-american. you remember how much criticism he received after calling the georgia voting bill racist. he is doubling down, doing it again in texas. will: fascinating to see if corporate america follows the democratic politicians down this trail. will they do in texas or attempt to do in texas -- carley: they already did. will: several have. several already. carley: coalition of 52 companies that signed this thing against the texas -- that was even before it passed because there were two separate bills. yeah. they were criticizing something that, and they didn't even know what they were -- will: exactly. carley: didn't know what was in it. will: recently several ceo's were before a senate banking committee, tim scott, senator tim scott from south carolina i would like to ask you what specifically about the georgia bill you had a problem with? crickets exactly. awkward silence. no response from the corporate ceos. pete: they have nothing to say. you have the president saying this is an assault on democracy!

targeting black and brown americans, un-american, that you would maybe set parameters of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., maybe don't want dropboxes that are not closely watched. heaven forbid you want an i.d. it is free to get an i.d. in the states. amazingly condescending. the idea you would request an absentee vote, absentee ballot to maintain a chain of custody, sending them hope they come out in legitimate manner. >> certain group of people have it, maybe a more left-leaning area than a right-leaning area. pete: never let an emergency go to waste. democrats feel like they can exploit the ballot box forever. call you racist for fighting back. emperor has no clothes. they have no argument. when they have to answer for it they have no answer. this is how we vote around can vote fairly as we have done in the past, if not recently. texas senator john cornyn tweeted this, like his

neanderthal thinking comment on mask protocals, president biden is wrong, increasingly partisan and out of touch with reality. texans will not sand for this right, will. will: i didn't think georgia would either. if they find success, then i don't know. carley: this is also about hr-1. will: baseball pulls out all-star game. corporate america falls in line based on something they can't articulate they have a problem with. pete: crazy. keep the photos coming in friend @foxnews.com. will: we have a fox news alert. a urgent search underway for a gunman who opened fire on a concert crowd in florida. two people are killed, 20 others are hurt. police believe it was a targeted shooting. miami police director alfredo ramirez, joined us earlier. they are reviewing surveillance

video and talking to witness. >> this gun violence issue has to stop. we're following up on leads and asking for the community's help. we're working it hard and trying to bring justice to the families. the. pete: the injured were taken to hospitals in broward and miami-dade counties. one of them is? critical condition. joe biden receives funds from a russian lobbiest before pulling sanctions on a russian pipeline. "new york post" says biden got a 4,000-dollar donation from richard burt directly ingauged in lobbying for the north stream 2 pipeline. the dnc said his donation fell through the vetting process because he failed to disclose his lobbying status. they have since returned the money. but the deal is done. live look at atlanta international airport as travel surges, it is still not surging there yet. i don't see any planes on the runway but it will be soon

surging for the unofficial start of summer. anybody see planes? they're all parked. but they will get there. tsa screening just shy of two million travelers on friday, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. road trips are still the memorial day favorite with 34 million of you expected to hit the road, up 50% from last year according to aaa, despite gas prices surging, excuse me, reaching a seven-year high. those are your headlines. will: let's turn -- see if i do this, chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with our fox weather forecast. hey, rick. rick: i'm not going to lie that was perfect. will: i know. i know. i felt it. even the exclamationpoint. carley: will, i love you i was rooting for to you fail. i was. i wanted somebody else to mess up. [laughter]. rick: that was perfect. i give a lot of leeway with my

last name, you said it exactly the way i say it. i'm very, very impressed. nicely done. all right, just for that i'm going to reward you with temps into 40s in new york city right now. factoring a little bit of wind, talking about windchill feels like 44 degrees in new york city, 45 in albany. it is a cool, wet day. this is the unofficial start to memorial day, or to the summer, yeah, not happening at all. we have big storms across parts of high plains weakening a little bit. we'll see those reinvigor once the sunshine comes out. especially parts of west texas and oklahoma. we'll watch for that. moisture across the mid-atlantic and northeast since friday. we have one more day. start to see improvement for the monday memorial day plans any activities later in the day tomorrow you ought to be able to make it through. guys, will, nice job. will: thank you, rick.

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that in your heart. do you feel betrayed by the u.s. government that they are trying to extradite you when they know you were on a rescue mission in that embassy. >> i don't feel betrayed. i understand this is a very complicated situation with a lot of moving parts and requires some really thoughtful processing of understanding what all the facts and what the evidence is. so i understand why the united states government and people may be confused about what is going on, but it requires someone to understand all the facts and evidence is. once they do they will understand what is the more believable story is. pete: the doj has not refuted that you were there to try to rescue diplomats. they acknowledged that point. north korean witnesses claimed it was hostile, claimed violence but no medical evidence of that. why in the world would the u.s.

government extradite you to spain where you could be in the cross-hairs of north korean assassins? >> again, it's a complicated situation. so the thing i do have is faith in the american system and the american justice system, the american government. quite frankly i have faith in the american people and i know that it may take a little bit of time and it may take some people to kind of step up to be willing to look at what the evidence is and look beyond kind of the immediate headlines. you know, kind of give, give an american veteran at least the benefit of the doubt to look over what the evidence is. once they do, it is going to be pretty obvious what the more believable story is. pete: you're right. the situation is complicated. encourage people to go to foxnews.com to read more about your case but in the moment, in the time that we have, what would you like the american people to know overall about the situation you face right now?

>> you know, it has been a long two years and it has been sometimes very lonely trying to fight this and know that even though i was trying to do a good thing and trying to help people to save their lives that in the end i will be okay. i want the american people to know i have heard their support. that i have received strength from their support and that i want to thank them for believing in me and in what we were doing. pete: thanks for talking to us exclusively live here on "fox & friends." it is worth mentioning they had an overflow room at your hearing for the media, there has been such a outpouring of support amongst people in south korea, koreans in america who recognize the courage of an individual like you hope the right thing is done in the end. christopher ahn, thanks for your service. you're remembering people on memorial day as well. we're grateful for your time on the show. >> thank you.

pete: thank you, chris. coming up former navy seal commander jocko willink, and his memorial day message you won't want to miss. nascar is set to rev up memorial day weekend with the coca-cola 600 today on fox. a previous -- previous view next called tardive dyskinesia... ... i ignored them. but when the movements in my hands and feet started throwing me off at work... i finally had to say, 'it's not ok.' it was time to talk to my doctor about austedo. she said that austedo helps reduce td movements in adults... ...while i continue with most of my mental health medications. (vo) austedo can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, or have suicidal thoughts. common side effects include inflammation of the nose and

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will: nascar rolls into charlotte motor speedway this weekend for the coca-cola 600 on fox but before the drivers put the pedal to the metal today nascar will honor our fallen heroes, including first lieutenant frederick mccourtty who made the ultimate sacrifice for his nation in 2003.

fox's chris myers joins us. good morning, chris, nascar has some pretty cool memorials, special tribute today for memorial day. tell us a little bit what nascar will do. >> they have a celebration. they're always active with having your u.s. servicemen and women military nearby but they're going to give the prerace show, jay leno who is going to give the command has a show coming up on fox, a game show called, remake of the old groucho marx "you bet your life." will give a car away to a family member of the military, and those who were lost last year on a crawl as you wash the race, has cash driver and car has a sticker after particular person who served this country and made the ultimate sacrifice. so the military always involved in nascar but that is why this is one of the crown jewels of

racing because it falls on memorial day weekend. they set it up that way, the race, ever since it became that, changing from decoration day in 1971. the approach is racing and remembrance and thankful to those who have served. will: we can see on the screen some of those names acrosswind shields on various cars. talk about the race itself, the coca-cola 600. it has been a while, chris, since we've had a repeat champion. chase elliot last weekend, last season we have seen somebody win back-to-back races. will we see it today? >> he is one of the hendrick chevrolet cars, ford drivers with the race team at the top. they have won the most championships. a win today the race team would have the all-time win list for racing team in nascar but chase elliot known for more of a road course, won on this track not particularly this race, this

600-mile grueling race. it's a test for him. i think he is in pretty good shape coming off the road course win in austin. he won back-to-back races at the end of last year which got him the championship. he has been voted nascar's most popular driver, chase elliot, the son of bill elliot. one of the drivers to watch. will: is it because the racetrack so variant or talent pool so distributed? why haven't we seen some back-to-back race winners. >> good point. richard petty, dale earnhardt, jeff gordon. we have 11 didn't winners across 14 races. nascar has scheduled different types of tracks, short tracks, superspeedway, mile 1/2, coca-cola 600 you will see later on fox. most races are run on mile 1/2 tracks. if you do well here you should be around for the championship

and this race is the ultimate test of speed and endurance. changing from day tonight where you start it around six, the speeds get a little bit greater. when usually the drivers tend to be more tired. it makes for an exciting finish after a long night of racing. will: chase elliot, denny hamlin, joey logano, kyle larson, a lot of names to watch today. chris, thanks for talking to us this morning. >> okay. have a good holiday weekend. will: you bet. fox bet super 6 app is giving you a chance to win clint boyer's brand new camping world rv and $25,000. download the app. pick six race out comes. opt in for your shot to win. free to play. don't miss out. he led the most decorated ops unit during the iraq war. the navy seal commander jocko willink joins us with his memorial day message coming up.

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♪. carley: he served 20 years in the u.s. military. this morning the man who led the most decorated special-ops unit of the iraq war is here with an emotional memorial day message. pete: retired navy seal commander jocko willink joins us now. nobody better to talk to on a day like this. you lived it on the battlefield. you still live it today. for our folks watching, what is

your message on this memorial day weekend? >> you know the thing that i always try to convey to people on this day is that just to remind them that these fallen solers, sailors, airmen and marines, these people, they weren't just warriors, they were human beings, they were people with families and loved ones, with mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters and husbands and wives, and most important they were people with a future. people with hopes, dreams, aspirations what they would do with life and they sacrificed all of that for us, for our freedom and for our way of life and that's something we can never forget. will: you know, jocko, we've talked to soldiers throughout the morning, one of the messages was, make it personal, make the story about what you know, make it about somebody that you know. for you on this memorial day, who do you think of? >> obviously first and foremost i think of my guys, mark lee,

first seal killed in iraq. mike man sour, second seal killed in iraq, posthumously awarded the medal of honor. ryan jobe severely wounded wounn iraq and died of those wounds. chris kyle, the "american sniper" everybody knows, seth stone, awarded two silver stars who was killed in a parachute accident later, these guys i knew that served with me and their first and foremost on my list, just a bunch of absolute heroes. they are my examples in life. i don't just try to remember them. i try and live like they lived. carley: absolutely. you know, jocko, we're paying special attention to veterans and those who died for our country in a special way today and this weekend. but do we do enough throughout the year? if not, what more can we do?

>> you know this past week i was down at the national utc museum in fort pierce florida. they have a memorial wall down there with names of fallen seals anding from men from all the different eras. it has world war ii, korea, vietnam, war on terror and i thought about taking a photograph of the each of the individual seals i knew on there but that wall is so still with names of guys i knew, it was overwhelming. that is what our generation has been through. it has been two decades of war. two decades of fighting and two decades of victory on the battlefield but also two decades of loss, two decades of sacrifice. we need to make sure as a nation we never forget that sacrifice. pete: amen. jocko, real quick. what specifically do you do on memorial day? just straightforward question. is there a certain way in which you memorialize? >> well, like many guys i run a

workout called merf. after michael murphy a medal of honor recipient and a seal. a tough workout. a lot of people across the nation do that. i go to visit my guys here in the cemetery in san diego, california. will: we know of your instagram feed, jocko, doing at murph, 4:081, 4.02, somewhere in that range. >> we get it done. sufficient ear little bit. won't forget the sacrifice. will: won't call it early, jocko. a little later in the day for you. thanks for getting up this morning. >> thanks, y'all. will: turning to a few additional headlines. seven people are presumed dead after a small plane crashed into a tennessee lake. police say the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a tennessee airport. it was headed for palm beach international airport. authorities say the plane belonged to gwen la a, former diet guru and recommendnant

fellowship church. they say she and her husband was onboard. chaos breaks out on the san diego beach. they closed the police early after fights, fires, robberies reportedly broke out. >> seattle police department. the park is now closed. everybody please leave the area at this time. will: at least two people were arrested and one officer was injured. vice president kamala harris tweets a new memorial day message after she was criticized for not honoring fallen soldiers. her original tweet said enjoy the long weekend with a photo of herself. after facing backlash she tweeted quote, throughout our history our servicemen and women have risked everything to defend our freedoms and our country as we prepare to honor them on memorial day we remember their service and their sacrifice. those are your headlines. carley: and that is a good message. will: yeah. pete: better late than never. will: for sure. pete: the war on wokeness. republicans are leading the

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we're donating this to the usa cares gala that is happening later this year. we need everyone's support to help us help usa cares for the month of may if possible. pete: 15% of your sales at cruise custom flags are going to usa cares. so people go to cruise custom flags.com, order one. not only getting a sweet looking flag like that but you're helping a cause. >> absolutely. tracy will talk a little bit about that cause. >> well i want to thank chris and cruise customs allowing us to do this. usa cares, post-9/11 veterans, military active guard and reserve with financial assistance and post-service skills training. we have hundreds of requests from veterans having problems, evictions, foreclosures, things like that. with help like this we're able to get the funds to help our warriors. pete: love it. is that the one you call the general. the biggest one? >> yes.

this is the general. this is our largest flag. it is about five-foot long. it weighs 50 to 70 pounds. pete: i have one sitting in my hallway at home, i have to figure out how to hang it. it is an absolute beauty seeing it in person. it is fun to watch it unfold on the program all morning long. the website to go, cruise cruisecustomflags.com. u sca. cares.org. working in hyperspeed, we appreciate it. >> appreciate it. pete: thank you. carley, over to you. carley: that flag was a bourbon barrel a few hours ago. how cool is that. we told you about a space force commander fired for calling out critical race theory in the military. congress is fighting back against what they call far left politics infiltrating our armed forces. former navy seal, dan crenshaw.

enough is enough. we won't let the military fall to woke ideology. we launched a whistle-blower web page where you submit your story. your complaint will be legally protected and go to my office around senator tom cotton. army veteran jeremy hunt is here to react. jeremy, give us your top line thoughts on congressman crenshaw's tweet, this sort of woke push in the military over all? >> yeah. overall i just, i applaud senator cotton and senator crenshaw speaking out what is going on in the military. if you want to support the troops right now we need people who refuse to shut up when it comes to the concerns of those who are serving. the problem, many who are serving active duty there is fear of you could lose your job as we saw a few weeks ago. what they are doing is providing a way, anonymous way people can actually share what is going on in a way hopefully bring about

some change. on the other hand this is very troubling. i mean the idea that they were receiving so many messages from concerned servicemembers they needed to set up a whistle-blower forum, clearly we are in some dark times, less than half a year i guess in the biden-harris administration already servicemembers are losing their jobs for speaking out against state-sanctioned racism. i mean how far have we gotten that this is what our servicemembers are having to resort to? on one hand a sobering moment. i'm completely disgusted what is going on. but on the other hand i'm thankful we have leaders who are speaking up, who are, are not staying silent when it comes to the issues. carley: we've seen videos of the cia also using the woke ideology. why is this happening? >> well, we have a new president who wants to basically, of course him and the whole

administration, they want to do make it so that you can't say anything that goes against or runs afoul of the progressive agenda. they're bringing all the kind of woke ideology we're talking about, state-sanctioned racism, telling people we should be judged by the color of your skin. if you're born white, born whatever, somehow you are inherently evil. this is kind of ideology that they want to bring to our nation's institutions. so of course the military and even cia are easy places to start. so that ses really what we're seeing going on. it is up to us to speak out against it for those who can't. carley: yeah. you know, this sort of ideology is infiltrating the schools, companies, but most concerning it has gotten into the military level as well for the reasons you laid out. jeremy, thanks so much for joining us this morning. thank you so much for your service as well. >> thank you. carley: don't go anywhere, country music star phil vasser is performing live on "fox & friends weekend" coming up.

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>> amen to that. happy memorial day weekend, everybody. ♪ i was 10 i was thin and seeing first base with a secondhand glove and dirt on my face ♪ ♪ in virginia, could figure that kid in the yard would go very far. ♪ i had no silver spoons, so beat up right and played out of tune, now i'm thinking and living the life that i love. when i count my blessings, i thank god above ♪ >> i'm ♪ i'm an american child,n american child ♪ ♪ can can grow wild for an american child ♪ ♪ that's right.

♪ ♪ seven pounds, three ounces she's got my nose. she pinned to my heart as deep as it grows, with a promise that is more than just someone's last name, she anyone's equal, ♪ ♪ these are an american child ♪ ♪ an american child ♪ ♪ dreams can grow wild for an american child ♪ ♪. ♪ well my grandfather would have been 80 today ♪ ♪ but in 45 he fell down the side of an american child ♪

♪ an american child ♪ ♪ an american child ♪ ♪ dreams can grow wild for inside of an american child ♪ ♪ an american child ♪ ♪ oh ♪ ♪. >> god bless y'all. [cheers and applause]

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♪ an american child, an american child. ♪ 'cuz dreams can grow inside of an american child ♪♪ will: that's phil vassar on "fox & friends" where we just heard a louvre performance of american child -- live performance of american child. phil, that was a beautiful performance. thank you for that. tell us, it's clear, the theme of america has made its way into your music. it means something important to you. what's your message on this memorial day weekend? >> you know what? i can't tell you how proud i am to be part of this folds of honor event. i've been doing these for many, many, many years, since the inception of folds. and i tell you what, it's just an amazing, amazing event. what they've done and what dan's

done and this whole group of folds folks, it's what it's all about, man, giving back. i'm just proud to be here, i really, really am. how y'all doing? [laughter] will: if you're talking to us, we're doing wonderful with. carley: hey, phil, one of the things i like so much about country music is you can count on it to be patriot you can. what drives you to honor our country through your songs? >> an american child was one of those songs i got so many letters and e-mails from focus folks, even soldiers in the fox hoels literally in the middle east -- foxholes saying thanks for your song. this is why we do it. you can't get a better answer to what you're doing than that. i'm just proud of what i do, and we travel all over the world visiting these troops, the men and women that serve the country all over the world. i tell you what, they're amazing folks.

pete: amen. phil, it's been a pleasure to have you on this morning. thank you so much for that amazing performance and for everything you do to support the troops and remember the fallen. >> thanks. that's right. happy memorial day. carley: happy -- will: and to you. and to you at home, we'll be back, some of us, again here tomorrow. you can celebrate memorial day by going to shop.foxnews.com. you'll get 15% off with the code fox patriot. there's one of the hats right there, on pete's head. [laughter] pete: could have been better. carley: could have been worse. pete: tune in form because "fox & friends", this was just the warm-up act to actual memorial day tomorrow. carley: absolutely. pete: i'll be watching you, will, while i grill. will: i'll send you a text. carley: we already know you're going to do a good job. pete: tonight modern warriors

reflection airs on fox news channel, we posted it to share why memorial day means so much. we do personalize it, 10 p.m. tonight on the channel, if you go to fox nation right now, you can see the director's cut as well. carley: that's right. it's been great spending the morning with you. thank you so much, all, for watching. happy memorial day. pete: go to church. carley: thank you, all who serve. ♪ ♪ maria: good sunday morning, everyone. welcome to "sunday morning futures," i'm maria bartiromo. coming up, the walls closing in on the origins of the coronavirus as dr. anthony fauci feels the heat. china's role and joe biden's response, coming up. we'll talk with ohio congressman mike turner on what the intelligence says about the intent behind covid-19 and the impact of owe biden's agenda. then four-star general and former vice chief of staff of the u.s. army, general jack keane, on the strength and courage of the